A Journal of People report
In a major development in geopolitics, northeast and southeast Asia have gone through important maneuvers by Russia. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has recently visited North Korea and Vietnam. An agreement between Russia and North Korea is also a powerful move by the two countries.
Putin has visited Vietnam days ago. He headed a top-level delegation and signed a dozen strategic partnership and cooperation agreements.
The trip followed the Russian president’s state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea), where a comprehensive new partnership treaty was signed with Putin’s North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un’s government in Pyongyang.
Putin met with his Vietnamese counterpart To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, parliament speaker Tran Thanh Man, and the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong. The main topics of the meetings in Hanoi were economic partnership, trade, and scientific and technical cooperation.
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